The answer is B: they are loans to the government.
        
             
        
        
        
Traute Grier explained her experiences as her being scared of the Russians. She felt nothing could ever be worse than falling into the hands of her Russian enemies that had, just three years prior, taken down Berlin. She is telling this in first person point of view, reliving her own experiences.
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
<span>hostility toward immigrants is t</span>he fear and prejudice many felt toward Germans and Communists during and after World War I expanded to include all immigrants. This triggered a general rise in racism and nativism. During World War I, immigration to the United States had dropped sharply, but by 1921, it had returned to prewar levels. Many Americans blamed the bombings, strikes, and recession of the postwar years on immigrants. Many believed immigrants were taking jobs that would otherwise have gone to soldiers returning home from the war.